Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a high-ranking official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and three other people with connections to the Iranian government in an alleged plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government. The charges made public

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Donald Trump attorney and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable possessions and his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed and to whom he now owes $150 million. Judge

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz falsely claimed in a high-profile Monday television appearance that more manufacturing jobs were lost under President Donald Trump than any other president. “We know Donald Trump lost more manufacturing jobs than any president in American history. That’s simply factual,” the Minnesota governor

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Russian operatives created and amplified false online content attempting to smear Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, US intelligence agencies said on Tuesday. The content in question — which included manipulated audio content that circulated on the social media platform X in the last week — contained “several indicators of manipulation

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Army has been ordered by a federal judge to release records related to former President Donald Trump’s controversial August visit to Arlington National Cemetery by Friday at the latest. The US Army issued a stark rebuke following the visit, stating that an employee of the cemetery was “abruptly pushed aside” after

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday upheld the conviction of the Cowboys for Trump founder who entered the restricted area of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, saying rioters didn’t have to know the Secret Service was protecting then-Vice President Mike Pence inside when they breached the area.

By Arit John, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Dozens of Black motorcyclists drove through north and west Philadelphia over the weekend with a simple message for Black men: Go vote. The ride – a joint effort between Black Men Vote, Black Bikers Vote and other local organizations – was one of several nonpartisan events held across the city in a bid to

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — With two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris’ top advisers are staring down numbers that show a wide majority of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track. They’re also confident that the next two weeks will include Donald Trump dropping more references to the “enemy within” or January 6 as a “day of love” and going off on rambling

By Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Judges in Michigan and North Carolina rejected lawsuits brought by the Republican National Committee and others that challenged overseas ballots cast by voters abroad who never resided in the states. The rulings in two separate cases on Monday are setbacks in efforts by Republicans to target

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to protect Social Security. But the bevy of tax breaks he’s promised – including pledging to stop taxing Social Security benefits – could hasten the depletion of the beloved entitlement program’s trust funds and leave seniors with smaller monthly payments. Trump’s platform

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to skin alive a state party representative who was recruiting poll watchers, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Prosecutors say that 62-year-old John Pollard sent several text messages to the representative, who isn’t named in court documents. The party

By Kevin Liptak, Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Monday for Israel and other unspecified countries in the Middle East as the United States seeks to move forward on efforts to resolve the conflict in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. American officials, led

By Katelyn Polantz, Sara Murray and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former Donald Trump aide, is set to get out of federal prison next Tuesday despite repeated attempts he and his legal defense team have made for him to be released early. The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump used a Monday visit to North Carolina to repeat debunked lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene. Speaking to reporters in a hard-hit community near Asheville, Trump kept repeating a false claim that was widely debunked when he made it earlier in October

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Two Naval aviators who were killed when their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington State last week had just returned from a Middle East deployment where they took part in strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. Lt Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, and Lt. Serena N. Wileman, 31,

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — First lady Dr. Jill Biden unveiled a reimagined public tour of the White House Monday aimed at making the People’s House more accessible, interactive and educational for visitors. After a multimillion-dollar upgrade, visitors on public tours will now be able to walk inside the White House’s Vermeil Room,

By Katie Bo Lillis and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The publication on social media of two classified US intelligence documents detailing Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran has set off a scramble inside the US government to discover how they were leaked, a closely held investigation in its early stages that is zeroing in